JAMBO!Is how we say hallow here in home Tanzania. I read about you
safari but you didn't passe here.Wellcome when you will passe near
bay next time.
Your birding freandElvis, Arusha Tanzania.
--- In Ethnoornithology@..., "Robert Gosford"
<robertgosford@...> wrote:
>
> Dear all,
>
> It's been a very busy year and I've been remiss in my duties to the
> ERSG for the past few months - for that I apologise. Since
> mid-September I've been back at work as a lawyer in Darwin in the
Top
> End , 1500km away from my home here at Yuendumu in central
Australia.
> We've been very busy with a change in Federal Government, changes
at
> the top of the Northern Territory government and with substantial
> changes to the administration of the Northern Land Council, the
> statutory authority that I'm working for that is responsible for
the
> management of the thousands of square kilometres of Aboriginal land
> and sea in the top half of the NT.
>
> Apart from returning to work (hopefully my stint will be over in a
> month or so and I can devote more attention to ethnoorn!) it has
been
> a great year for ethnoornithology.
>
> First my travel - In late March & early April I attended and
presented
> at an ethnoornithology symposium at the 30th Society of
Ethnobiology
> conference at Berkeley in California then with my partner Gloria
had a
> wonderful two weeks driving through the backroads of New Mexico and
> Arizona.
>
> Then in May I was off to Maturin in Venezuela for the 8th
Neotropical
> Ornithological Conference, where I was a co-chair of another
> ethnoornithology session and had the pleasure of meeting new
> colleagues from across south and central America.
>
> In June I returned, via the UK, to attend and present at a
workshop at
> the Institute for the Sociology of Law at Onati, outside Bilboa in
the
> Basque country the back to the UK to travel up to Cambridge to
give a
> presentation at the Birdlife International offices there. Thanks to
> John Fanshawe of BI we had a wonderful dinner and a few ales with
> Martin Walsh (another ethnoornithologist specialising, like John,
in
> east African bird knowledge) and Mark Cocker. Mark is working on an
> international version of his wonderful book, Birds Britannica
(more on
> this matter in another post).
>
> I managed to spend a few months back at home before traveling up to
> Darwin to start work back at the NLC fgor a few months, until
October,
> when I flew via Perth and Johannesburg to Nairobi in Kenya. There I
> was the guest and (honoured and flattered) keynote speaker at the
1st
> Ethnoornithology Conference at the National Museums of Kenya at
Nairobi.
>
> End of Part 1 - Gloria tells me that we have to take the dogs for
> their Christmas Eve walk - I'll look out for the Spotted Nightjars
and
> Wedegtailed Eagles that have been a regular sighting on these
> walks...back soon.
>
> Cheers and best,
>
> Robert Gosford
> ERSG moderator
>